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CSIS Task Force on HIV/AIDS
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The CSIS Task Force
on HIV/AIDS is cochaired by Senators Bill Frist (R-Tenn.)
and Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) and is funded by the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation. Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.),
an original cochair, continues as an honorary chairman
of the task force. Task Force outlines strategic choices
that lie ahead for the United States in fighting the
global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The CSIS Task Force comprises
an Eminent Persons Panel (EPP), drawn from Congress,
the administration, public health groups, the corporate
sector, activists, and others. This panel helps to shape
the direction and scope of the Task Force and disseminate
findings to a broader U.S. audience.
The Task Force seeks
to build bipartisan consensus on critical U.S. policy
initiatives and to emphasize to senior U.S. policymakers,
opinion leaders, and the corporate sector the centrality
of U.S. leadership in strengthening country-level capacities
to enhance prevention, care, and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
The project is in collaboration with the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, UNAIDS, and the U.S.
Agency for International Development J.
Stephen Morrison, director of the CSIS Africa Program,
manages the overall project, in cooperation with the
CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies, the CSIS Russia/Eurasia
Program and the CSIS South Asia Program.
In August 2003, the
Task Force's Phase I came to
a close, and the Gates Foundation funded a major expansion
of its activities (Press release). Now in its second
phase (2003-2005) the Task Force will organize existing
working groups that have broad application, particularly
for those countries of southern and eastern Africa hardest
hit by the pandemic's First Wave. At the same time,
the Task Force will expand it's regional scope, with
emphasis on building U.S. bilateral engagement in the
large and populous Second Wave
states of Africa, China,
India, and Russia.
The Task Force will
continue and expand the scope of the working
committees that aim to build consensus on broad
themes in U.S. policy toward global HIV/AIDS:
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